Well, I think doctors are more comfortable with the idea that PN is a lifestyle disease, and that patients end up with it because of poor habits. (alcohol consumption, overweight leading to Type II diabetes,etc).
But in reality...which they will not and cannot face, doctors have been AGENTS in causing PN in their patients. Prescribing drugs that are neurotoxic --statins, fluroquinolones, etc.
What doctor is going to admit to a patient that he/she caused their neuropathy? (the only ones that I think will do so, and reluctantly, would be the oncologists for chemo and HIV doctors)
I wonder how that conference will go? Will they admit their involvement, or blame the patient?
There has already been a study done showing doctors refuse to even acknowledge that statins have any side effects at all!
http://medicationsense.com/articles/...cts012108.html
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